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"No project has ever had budgets like this"
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"No project has ever had budgets like this"

From: Targeting Libya

This chapter outlnes how Libya moved from sanctions toward rapprochement with the West, while SNC-Lavalin and the Canadian state worked in tandem to win lucrative contracts. Qadhafi’s shift … 9 $0.90 Add
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Non-humans (heard and Unheard)
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Non-humans (heard and Unheard)

From: Messy Cities

Kite and Robbie Wing discuss workshops they lead, combining Indigenous listening practices and the urban or built environment to inform each participant’s perception of the workshop. 6 $0.60 Add
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Notes and Bibliography
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Notes and Bibliography

From: Searching for Serafim

This chapter includes the authors notes and bibliography. 8 $0.80 Add
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Oil, militias, and the second civil war
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Oil, militias, and the second civil war

From: Targeting Libya

This chapter outlines how, after helping destroy Qadhafi’s Libya, Canada turned a blind eye to its own illegal war while prosecuting SNC-Lavalin for corruption, backing a new Libyan regime … 8 $0.80 Add
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Packrat City
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Packrat City

From: Messy Cities

Tatum Taylor Chaubal connects her “packrat” collecting tendencies with her role and values as a city heritage planner, advocating for these roles to include preserving the “messy urbanism” of the past. 4 $0.40 Add
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Painting the Town
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Painting the Town

From: Messy Cities

Dylan Reid and Leslie Woo discuss graffiti and its many qualities, and the case for street art in cities. 8 $0.80 Add
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Plague
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Plague

From: Encampment

This chapter outlines COVID’s continued effect on Toronto’s homeless population and how it contributed to the growing number of encampments around the city. 32 $3.20 Add
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Planning for an Unplanned City
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Planning for an Unplanned City

From: Messy Cities

Jason Thorne argues for factoring in “messy urbanism” and its challenges into how we plan our cities and to move away from a more top-down approach to city-building. 6 $0.60 Add
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Public Health in the Post-Covid Era
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Public Health in the Post-Covid Era

From: Messy Cities

Dr. Andrew Boozary writes about how the pandemic illustrated that public health and equity in Canada do not meet the standards many Canadians expect. 4 $0.40 Add
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Rasta Cape Town
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Rasta Cape Town

From: Messy Cities

Kofi Hope reflects on their experience living in Cape Town, South Africa, and how the Rastafarians they met there were messy urbanists: community builders, peacemakers, entrepreneurs, … 7 $0.70 Add
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Satisfying Our Thirst for Agency
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Satisfying Our Thirst for Agency

From: Messy Cities

Colin Ellard argues that our desire for messy cities is connected to the desire human beings feel towards the complexity of the natural world. 6 $0.60 Add
Searching for Serafim
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Searching for Serafim

The Life and Legacy of Serafim "Joe" Fortes

In Searching for Serafim, author Ruby Smith Díaz seeks to unravel the complicated legacy of a local legend Serafim "Joe" Fortes. She draws from historical documents to form an … 144 View
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Sports and Spaces
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Sports and Spaces

From: Messy Cities

Perry King writes about the public spaces utilized for sports in urban cities such as the multi-purpose sports courts housed beneath highways in Navi, Mumbai. 6 $0.60 Add
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The Ballet of the Parking Lot
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The Ballet of the Parking Lot

From: Messy Cities

Brendan Stewart and Daniel Rotsztain write about the plazaPOPS initiative in Etobicoke North to illustrate the vibrancy of community life that strip malls generate and how these plazas can be … 9 $0.90 Add
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The Canada-Libya thaw
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The Canada-Libya thaw

From: Targeting Libya

In this chapter Canadian prime minister Paul Martin’s 2004 tent meeting with Qadhafi symbolized how Canadian diplomacy, corporate interests (especially SNC-Lavalin and oil firms), and … 6 $0.60 Add
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The Case Against Controlling Infrastructure
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The Case Against Controlling Infrastructure

From: Messy Cities

Andrés Borthagaray writes that a combination of messy and orderly urbanism produces beneficial interaction, and uses examples of mobility infrastructure to illustrate their point. 5 $0.50 Add